Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs.

B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what's the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?

M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.

A warming atmosphere is causing a branch of the ocean's powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.

The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.

Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test.

This newsletter takes a closer look at the effect of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the CTC surveys in fall 2020.

Conservation groups welcome aspects of the largely voluntary packaging and recycling targets but warn regulation will be necessary.

The total number of butterflies west of the Rockies has fallen 1.6% a year since 1977, a study finds: "You extrapolate it and it's crazy."

On March 4, 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists held its first public event at MIT with the goal of disrupting teaching and research to give way to a different kind of teaching-reflecting on the misuse of scientific knowledge. It's relevance is continued.

International study finds change in attitudes possibly driven by anticipated regret of not having vaccine.

"It almost seems like a magical thing," said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.

The National Institutes of Health will fund researchers to track people's recovery, and will host a biospecimen bank.

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.

After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression.

Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they're not all the same.

At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.

Looking for a research paper but can't find a copy in your library's catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a "vanished" Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author's pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage.

The International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) is an international association of scholars and professionals active in the interdisciplinary study science of science, science communication, and science policy.

This author weathered repeated rejections, but constructive feedback helped him to find ways to stand out from the crowd.

An analysis of 32 countries finds differences between national guidance and Europe-wide code.